On This Day: March 7th

Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".

Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.

Shrigley abduction: 15-year old Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future figure in the establishment of colonies in South Australia and New Zealand.

Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.

Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman-Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.

The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses.

Konrad III von Hohenstaufen is elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.

The Third Council of Constantinople deposes patriarch Macarius I of Antioch.

Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.